Thanks to THE BACKYARD for featuring our blog this week. If you haven't visited there yet, or not in a while please take a trip over. They have neat contests and entries. You can contribute too and have your work published. You'll be famous! ;- )
Now, WE WANT YOU! to please send us any poetry that you have written since we are the poetry moderators. We will post it at The Backyard on Wednesdays. Every week we post a new poem, so please don't be shy. Pull out those poems that you are keeping to yourself and share them with the world. By the way, you must login in order to see The Backyard weblog to keep it safe for youth.
Oh, and HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY to those who are Americans! Nobody celebrates it over here so feel sorry for us while you are watching fireworks.
This is the first time I have seen real fireworks (You know, the kind that go hundreds of feet into the air,) in several years.
One year, I was in France and celebrated the 4th of July. I was with a large group, and when we got on the bus to head off for our next destination, the bus was decorated and we each had little gift bags. It was kind of fun.
You're hilarious... and just so you feel better... we don't watch fireworks or go anywhere or do anything... we're broing... we just stay home and pull weeds (I do anyway).
Still planning on that trip to Europe with me and Legolas?! Oh good... I don't care for rain but I could get used to it! LOL
Love,
Jocelyn
Read my latest posts:
The Knife-Throwing-Goat-Maiden: http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Jocelyndixon/352242/
Stubborn as a goat: http://www.homesteadblogger.com/Jocelyndixon/61616/
Hi guys,
I happened to find your site while I was researching something about notebooks. Actually, I have nothing to do with homeschool bloggers, I'm no longer a student, but your site is really interesting and neat. When I encountered this site, I couldn't help examining it thoroughly, partly because it is very attractive by itself and partly because it bears a lot of content related to "The Lord of the Rings". And most importantly, I somehow feel myself close to you. I appreciate Legolas' work "The Last War" and congratulate you on your being chosen as "the featured blog". I also follow Frado's posts enthusiastically. It has given me the opportunity to think about trying to write poems again. I'm sure you will never miss a shot in life, and moreover, will warn anybody who does (I might be making no sense sometimes; since I learned English by myself). I'm talking about your recommendation about "The Ballad of the White Horse". I have had the chance to see and have some information about that book at a tea break in a small office in Middle Earth :)
Warm Regards...
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us..." GANDALF
The purpose of this blog is to record the ideas that are
most important to us. We are two sisters who choose to go by the names of
Frodo and Legolas. You will find poems and quotes,
narrations and pictures from our favorite sources that
have inspired us to use the time that has been given to
us to the best of our ability. We hope you will enjoy
the journey there and back again....
The Birth of Britain
The Brendan Voyage
Beautiful Girlhood
The Lay of the Land
Ivanhoe
Trial and Triumph
Age of Chivalry
Fearfully And Wonderfully Made
How to Read a Book
The Story of Painting
Life of Nicias by Plutarch
The Silmarillion
The Final Quest
A Taste of Chaucer
Joan of Arc by Twain
Idylls of the King
Much Ado about Nothing
A Wrinkle In Time
Life of the Spider
How the Heather Looks
Pursuit of God
Daughter of Time
In Freedom's Cause
Lilith
David Copperfield
Legolas is Reading...
The Silmarillion
Halliburton's Book of Marvels: The Occident
Age of Fable
Life of Nicias by Plutarch
The Story of the Greeks
Augustus Caesar's World
The Sea Around Us
Hittite Warrior
Animal Farm
Magician's Nephew (in Turkish)
Archimedes and the Door of Science
Swiss Family Robinson
What Katy Did
Unfinished Tales
Where the Red Fern Grows
Follow My Leader
Penrod
Story of the Romans
Along Came Galileo
Jack and Jill
Never Give In
Valley of Thorns (in Turkish)
Ben Hur
"The value of the myth is that it
takes all the things we know and
restores to them the rich
significance which has been hidden
by the veil of familiarity . . .
By putting bread, gold, horse, apple
or the very roads into a myth,
we do not retreat from reality:
we rediscover it. As long as the
story lingers in our mind,
the real things are more themselves.
[The Lord of the Rings]
applies the treatment not only
to bread or apple but to good and evil,
to our endless perils, our anguish
and our joys. By dipping them in myth
we see them more clearly. I do not
think [Tolkien] could have done it
in any other way.
- C.S. Lewis
The Music
INTO THE WEST by Yulia
The Movie
LORD OF THE RINGS The Return of the King
'When the seas and mountains fall
And we come to end of days
In the dark I hear a call
Calling me there
I will go there
And back again'
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One year, I was in France and celebrated the 4th of July. I was with a large group, and when we got on the bus to head off for our next destination, the bus was decorated and we each had little gift bags. It was kind of fun.